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Show -1*8- "ARTICLE VII. "Nebraska agrees that compliance by Colorado with the provisions of this compact and the delivery of water in -accordance with its terms shall relieve Colorado from any further or additional demand or claim by Nebraska upon the waters of the South Platte River within Colorado* "ARTICLE VIII. "Whenever any official of either State is designated herein to perform any duty under this contract^ such designation shall be interpreted to include the State official or officials upon whom the duties now performed by such official may hereaf-ter devolve, and it shall be the duties of the officials of the State of Colorado charged with the duty of the distribution of the waters of the South Plat-to River for irrigation purposes to make deliveries of water, at ths interstate station in compliance tvith this compact without necessity of enactment of special statutes for such purposes by the General Assembly of the State of-Colorado. "ARTICLE IX, "The physical and other conditions peculiar to the South Platte River and to the territory drained and served thereby constitute tho basis for this compact and neither of the signatory States hereby concedes the establishment of any general-principle or precedent with respect to other interstate streams. • "ARTICLE X. . "This compact may be modified or terminated at any time by mutual consent of the signatory States, but, if so terminated, and Nebraska or its citizens shall seek to enforce any claims of vested rights in the waters of the South Platte River-, the statutes-of limitation shall not run in favor.of Colorado or its citizens with reference to claims of the western irrigation district to the water- of the South Platte River from the loth day of April, 1916, and as to all other present claims'from the date of the ' approval of this compact to the date of termination, and the State of Colorado and its citizens who may be made defendants in any action brought for such purpose shall not be permitted to plead the statutes of limitation for such periods of time. "ARTICLE XI. "This compact shall become operative when approved by the legislature of each of tho signatory States and by the Congress of the United States, Notice of approval ty the-legislature shall bo given by the governor of each State to the governor of the other State, and to the President of the United States; and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the governors of the signatory States of the approval by the Congress of the • United States. • "In witness whereof the commissioners have signed this.compact in duplicate originals, one of which- shall be deposited with the Secretary of State of each of the 3ignatory -States. "Done at Lincoln, in the State of Nebraska, this twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three. "DELPH E. CARPENTER. Approved, Maroh 8, 1926. "ROBERT H. WILLIS." |
